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rights group says it has evidence of Myanmar's government discriminating
against Muslim Rohingya, restricting their movements and family size.

Fortify Rights said that the government's orders, shown in
leaked documents, amounted to "state policies of persecution" in Rakhine
state.
There was no immediate response to the report from the Burmese authorities.
The government of Myanmar, also known as Burma, views the Rohingya as foreign migrants, not citizens.
There is widespread public hostility towards the Rohingya in
Buddhist-majority Myanmar. The Rohingya, on the other hand, feel they
are part of Myanmar and claim persecution by the state.
The UN has described the Rohingya as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.'Marriage restrictions'In a report,
Fortify Rights said it had analysed 12 government documents from 1993
to 2013, and found that government policies imposed "extensive
restrictions on the basic freedoms of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's
Rakhine state".
The policies restricted Rohingya's "movement, marriage,
childbirth, home repairs and construction of houses of worship", it
said.

Clashes between Muslims and Buddhists in Rakhine state have razed homes and displaced thousands

Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state were also prohibited from
travelling between townships, or out of Rakhine, without permission, the
report said.
The report said a government order stipulated that married
Rohingya couples in parts of Rakhine state could not have more than two
children, while another document said Rohingya had to apply for
permission to marry, in what the report described as a "humiliating and
financially prohibitive" process.
One document published in the report said officials should
force a woman to breastfeed her child if there were doubts over whether
she was the birth mother.
The restrictions have been known about for some time, but
what is new is that campaigners say they have the official orders issued
by the Buddhist-dominated local government in Rakhine state, the BBC's
Jonah Fisher in Rangoon reports.
It is an oft-stated fear of Myanmar's Buddhists that the
larger families of Muslims mean they will one day be in the majority,
our correspondent adds.
Tensions remain high between Buddhist and Muslim communities
with the latest violence - an attack on Rohingya villagers in January -
thought to have killed scores of people.
In 2012 widespread rioting and brutal clashes between Rakhine
Buddhists and Muslims, largely thought to be Rohingya Muslims, left
almost 200 dead and displaced thousands. Documents 'show Myanmar Rohingya discrimination is policy'
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